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A Community-Partnered, Participatory, Cluster-Randomized Study of Depression Care Quality Improvement: Three-Year Outcomes

A community coalition approach to depression care quality improvement may lead to better physical health-related quality of life and fewer behavioral health hospitalization nights.

Aug 23, 2017
Tool

Tool

Getting To Outcomes® Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness

This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of community emergency preparedness programs. It includes instructions, completed examples, and blank tools.

Aug 21, 2017
Report

Report

Guide to the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model

This guide provides an overview of and guidance on the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model, a framework designed to help policymakers and practitioners estimate the resilience dividend from projects they are considering or have implemented.

Aug 1, 2017
Report

Resilience Dividend Valuation Model: Framework Development and Initial Case Studies

This report describes the development of the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model, a complementary framework designed to help communities estimate the resilience dividend from resilience projects or investment.

Aug 1, 2017
Commentary

Anti-Drug Education: Time for a New Bumper Sticker

Effective drug prevention in America could start by helping school districts adopt programs that work. These evidence-based programs can teach children to make wise and responsible decisions about drugs, and they won't break the bank.

Jul 20, 2017
Journal Article

Challenges Of Measuring Quality Of Community-Based Programs For Seriously Ill Individuals And Their Families

Quality measures and payment approaches for community-based programs serving seriously ill patients should incorporate core components such as communication, shared decision making, and advance care planning.

Jul 19, 2017
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Journal Article

Promoting Physical Activity in High-Poverty Neighborhood Parks: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Modest efforts, such as free classes, to increase physical activity in high-poverty area parks attracted visitors during special programming but were not sufficient to increase overall park use.

Jul 18, 2017
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Journal Article

Predicting Evidence-Based Treatment Sustainment: Results from a Longitudinal Study of the Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach

Providers' ability to sustain A-CRA programming beyond initial implementation support depended on factors such as the level of implementation success, staff perceptions toward the intervention, funding stability, and community support.

Jul 18, 2017
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Using Stakeholder Input to Inform an Innovative Research and Policy Initiative to Improve Depression in Safety Net Communities

An exercise to prioritize the needs of depressed individuals in LA County identified stable and affordable housing as the number one priority.

Jul 13, 2017
Project

Advancing Community Hospitals and Services in England

Community hospitals could be better integrated into the NHS England healthcare system to offer an effective and efficient alternative to acute hospitals and to provide health and social care closer to people’s homes. However, there is limited evidence on the cost effectiveness of community hospitals.

Jul 11, 2017
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Journal Article

Police Legitimacy and Disrupting Overt Drug Markets

The study investigates mechanisms thought to support immediate and sustained change after a DMI by analyzing qualitative data collected in community focus groups conducted at three-, six-, and 15-months following a DMI across three different sites.

Jun 30, 2017
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An Examination of Measures Related to Children's Exposure to Violence for Use by Both Practitioners and Researchers

This review of measures to screen, assess, and track outcomes for exposure to violence among children identifies gaps in available measures and recommends establishing a centralized item bank accessible to researchers and practitioners.

Jun 9, 2017
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A School-Based Public Health Model to Reduce Oral Health Disparities

Broad-based school-community partnerships can help address the unmet oral health needs of low-income children.

Jun 8, 2017
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Relationship Between Provider Stigma and Predictors of Staff Turnover Among Addiction Treatment Providers

Addiction treatment providers are less likely to be satisfied with their work if they hold negative views towards patients with substance abuse disorders.

Jun 6, 2017
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Journal Article

Sources of Care for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems: The Role of the African American Church

Many Los Angeles-area African American churches provide recovery supports and services for alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and actively connect individuals to formal AOD treatment.

Jun 6, 2017
Report

Report

Evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme

This report presents findings from an evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme, which provided grants to organisations supporting migrants. It looks at the impacts achieved in law, policy and practice in Ireland.

May 31, 2017
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Journal Article

Telomere Length and Neighborhood Circumstances: Evaluating Biological Response to Unfavorable Exposures

Studying neighborhood effects on telomere length could provide insight into how neighborhood factors relate to biology.

May 31, 2017
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Rise, a Community-Based Culturally Congruent Adherence Intervention for Black Americans Living with HIV

A community-based, culturally specific intervention improved antiretroviral treatment adherence among Black Americans living with HIV.

May 30, 2017
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Journal Article

Health Shocks and Their Long-Lasting Impact on Health Behaviors: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic in Mexico

Hospitalizations of young children in Mexico continued to decline three years after the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, showing that disease outbreaks can act as "natural nudges" that spur long-lasting effects on behavior and health outcomes.

May 19, 2017
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Journal Article

Improved Parental Dietary Quality Is Associated with Children's Dietary Intake Through the Home Environment

Among families living in a former food desert, nutrition and physical activity norms of the home environment had a larger effect on childrens' dietary intake than the types of food available at home.

May 16, 2017

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RAND Topic:
Communities

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Organized Society

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